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Fifteen sweeps already, and a 16th sitting right there No team in baseball has swept more series than Tampa Bay this year. Fifteen. Beat the Athletics on Thursday afternoon in St. Petersburg and the Rays make it sixteen. They have been rolling for a while. Houston got swept last weekend, and the homestand that followed…

The Angels left 14 men on base in Anaheim and paid for it. Seattle took the finale 7-2, with Cal Raleigh driving in three and one error opening the game up.

The clinch that wasn’t The plastic sheeting could have gone up in the visitors’ clubhouse Wednesday night. It stayed in the box. Los Angeles (92-60) lost 6-2 to the Reds (71-81) in Cincinnati. Two hours later San Diego (83-69) put nine on Colorado, and the NL West stayed officially open for one more day. Not…

Tampa Bay have won five straight at home and can sweep the Athletics on Thursday. Drew Rasmussen, unbeaten against them in his career, takes the ball.

Three more homers in Milwaukee on Wednesday pushed Pittsburgh past a franchise mark that had stood for 27 years. They still lost the game.

Sandy Alcantara had never recorded a save in the majors. He got one overnight in Phoenix, and Arizona’s wild-card hopes took another hit.

Nine big league games, and already in the record book Ethan Salas has been a major leaguer for barely two weeks. Overnight in Denver he hit the first two home runs of his career, drove in three, and walked off with a 9-3 Padres win over the Colorado Rockies. At 20 years and 107 days,…

Pete Crow-Armstrong cleared the Wrigley walls twice and the Cubs kept their half-game hold on the National League’s top wild card. Atlanta had no answer after the fifth.

Half a game, and it changes everything Petey Halpin got hold of one in the sixth. Three runs came around, and by the end of the night Cleveland had beaten Chicago 6-3 and taken sole possession of first place in the AL Central. The rookie had help. Jo Adell knocked in two with a single,…